INTRODUCTION
The data centre sector has experienced a step change in complexity over the past two to three years that has no real precedent in the industry’ s history. The convergence of AI, machine learning and exponentially-growing compute demand has compressed timelines, multiplied the scale of individual deployments and introduced a new category of geopolitical risk that now runs through every logistics decision. The supply chain – once a supporting function – has become part of the critical infrastructure itself.
This whitepaper brings together insights from four members of GXO’ s data centre leadership team:
• Glen Sutton, whose perspective as Division President of Technology anchors the strategic dimension of this conversation, leads GXO’ s positioning in the hyperscale sector.
• Donna Del Rosso, who brings more than 15 years of data centre experience to her role as
Senior Vice President of Data Centre Logistics at GXO, offers a detailed view of how the logistics function has evolved at the operational level.
• Marcus Machado, Business Unit Director, leads GXO’ s data centre operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa( EMEA) and speaks to the particular challenges of deploying at scale across a highly fragmented regulatory landscape.
• Nicholas Baranski, VP of Operations, contributes a global operations perspective, including deep expertise in the Asia‐Pacific( APAC) region, where documentation complexity, customs nuance and multi‐site coordination shape deployment execution.
Together, their insights map the journey from fragmented, regional logistics to the kind of global orchestration that hyperscale infrastructure now requires – and make a clear case for why logistics capability has become a competitive variable in the race to deploy cloud capacity.
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